Americans are paying more because companies raised prices during the pandemic and never decreased them, pocketing the extra.
Welcome to the new norm. We're all getting fucked.
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Also I received no raise in 3 years so it double fucks me.
You have to advocate for yourself. If you don't get a raise they're effectively paying you less, even as you get more experience, because of inflation.
Time to decrease your output by the percentage rate of inflation.
Already done I sit and read a book all day long.
Carefully, he's a hero!
What a terribly written article. It makes it sound like all Americans suddenly have mortgages at the current 7％ when reality is most are sitting with current loans in the 3％ range and much lower payments. This headline assumes everyone is paying the current rates.
~~Most Americans pay rent, not mortgage. Rent changes every year/when the lease renews.~~
Edit: I was wrong: https://www.rubyhome.com/blog/homeowners-vs-renters-stats/#:~:text=65.8%25%20of%20the%20U.S.%20population,own%2C%20and%2034.2%25%20rent.
Why do these news corporations keep misspelling "corporate greed"?
$709 isn't even exaggerating.
My rent alone increased by that much in the past two years.
Add to the $150-$300 more for groceries.
Every restaurant visit averages about $30 per person. Fucking McDonald's is like $10 for a meal.
I no longer do UberEats or take an Uber, because they doubled in fees.
Same as it ever was
Nah bro. It's actually getting worse.
That certainly explains why my savings is going the wrong direction despite no lifestyle changes.
Damn.
tldr: Inflation was 9% last year, and 3% this year
all this free profit for them is what is keeping the stock market inflated. but that's getting ready to come down now too..
Median weekly earnings for full time workers were $899 in Q1 2019, $1107 in Q2 2023.
That's $3895/mo to $4797/mo, so the median full time worker is earning an extra $902/mo in that time span.
I don't know how he was calculating "typical household" or what quarter he was working with, my point is that the net dollar amount is pretty misleading for an article headline. It sounds like the typical household is $700 worse off, but they definitely are not.
We have an appropriate measure for answering this question, real wages. It's below pre-pandemic numbers but it's catching up as wages are currently rising faster than inflation.
The time period was over two years, not four. Two years ago it was $996/week in Q2 of 2021. That's $4316/mo or a $481/mo increase in that span. Still not $700 a month worse off, but they are worse off.
I think you are reading the "stuck at 2019 levels" and reading that as the starting point of their assertion.